• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      Telegram, including secret chats, is not blocked because Russian elites happen to use that, too.

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        I could put on my tinfoil hat and say if signal is blocked but telegram isn’t, maybe that means that telegram isn’t as secret as they make it out to be.

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            No need, all you have to do is read the whitepaper. they home brewed the encryption algorithm and nobody actually knows if it’s worth a damn. That’s not exactly a secret.

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              nobody actually knows if it’s worth a damn.

              After all these years, security researchers still don’t know if the encryption is any good?

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                On that level it usually falls on computer scientists. Formal methods can prove that any implementation is correct, but proving the absence of unintended attacks is a lot harder.

                Needham-Schroeder comes to mind as an example from back when I was studying the things.

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                  On that level it usually falls on computer scientists.

                  And not a single one has been able to analyze the encryption in all these years? Fact is, Telegram is the tool the Russian opposition and even Ukrainians use to communicate without Putin being able to infiltrate.

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            They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

            Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.

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              You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

              Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.

              Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways?

              Probably Russians who used Signal before.

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                The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.

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                  The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.

                  F-Droid builds from source, so any suspicion whether the Google Play version has been tampered is completely irrelevant for the F-Droid version.

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                  It’s reproducible if you compare it with F-droid’s tarball, which has all the source code in it.

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            Can it be proven that that encryption is what’s used in practice?

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        Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

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          Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

          I was very explicitly referring to secret chats.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    Signal over Proton VPN Stealth protocol. All free, specifically for these types of situations.

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      Not seeing paywall myself, clearing cookies and other site data might also help.

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        They could start by blocking the biggest instances, then slowly chasing after the smaller ones.

        There’s not an infinite amount of instances, even if new ones are made, they’ll get all of them eventually. So this is basically a cat and mouse game.